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S. A. AKINS.

GAME.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I8. I9I5.

Patented May 22, 1917.

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GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application led October 18, 1915. Serial N o. 56,418.

To all whom t may concern.' y

Be it known that I, STEPHEN A. AkrNs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to baseball game apparatus, and my object is to provide an apparatus which will accurately display, substantially, all plays that arise in a regular game of major league baseball, and also one on which a game may be played by one or more persons without changing the apparatus in any way.

The present invention embraces certain improvements lover the apparatus disclosed by my copending application filed March 25, 1915, Serial No. 16,892.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus.

Fig. 2 is an elevation with a portion of the case removed to display some of the interior parts.

Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section on line III-III of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4. is an irregular, broken, longitudinal section on line IV-fIV of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a broken elevation of certain interior parts of the apparatus.

Fig. 6 is a brokeninterior view of a portion of the case with one of a number of slides employed in carrying out the invention.

Fig. 7 is a cross section of a roller consti tuting part of the invention.

I Referring now in detail to the different elements, 1 designates the case in which most of the working parts are assembled. Said case consists of two sections 2 and 3, the former of which telescopes in the latter, so that access can be readily had to the interior parts.

Section 2 is provided at four corners with Vcushions 2, to prevent it from marring the surface of a table or other support upon which the apparatus may be laid when it is to beused in a horizontal position. Said section 2, also, is provided at one end with a hook 2", so that the apparatus may be suspended from a wall in full view of a large congregation desirous of witnessing a game.

The face plate 3el of the section 3 has a base ball diamond portrayed thereon and embracing the usual base lines 4 and foul lines 5. Said face plates also has a home plate. opening H, first, second and third base openings, 1-B, 2-B and 3-B, respectively, a short-stop opening S, and left field, center field and right field openings L-F, C F and R-F, respectively. Said face plate also has openings 6, 7 and 8 adjacent the first, second and third base openings, respectively, to display base runners on said bases, and a pitchers opening 9 adjacent the center of the diamond. A coachers opening 10 is also provided betweenthe third base and home plate openings. The umpires, the coachers, and the in and out ielders of the opposing teams are carried on `a rockable member 11, operably secured to the underside of the face plate 3a by screws 12, eX- tending through holes in said face plate and segmental slots 13 in the rockable member 11. Said rockable member 11 is actuated at the end of the half innings to alternately display the opposing ball players,by a knob 14: extending through a segmental slot 15 in the face plate and secured at its inner end to the rockable member 11.

The opposing base runners and pitchers are portrayed on disks 16, 17, 18 and 19 mounted beneath the openings 6, 7, 8 and 9, respectively. The disks 16 to 19, inclusive, preferably, are arranged in the same plane as the rockable member 11, which has a central opening 20 to receive said disks. The axis of disks 16, 17 and 18 are provided with lmobs 21, 22, and 23, respectively, whereby they may be rotated to bringA the ball players thereon into register with their respective openings 6, 7 and 8. e

The disk 19 which carries portrayals of the two opposing pitchers, is actuated to alternately display said pitchers at the opening 9, by an arm 19a Xed to the rockable member 11 and operably-engaging an eccentric pin 19b fixed to said disk 19.

Disks 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,l and 30 are distributed around the rockable member 11 and provided with numeralslfor indicating balls, strikes, outs, innings, and scores of the opposing teams, as they arise during the progress of a game. The disks 25 to 30, inclu sive, are mounted upon knobs 31 to 36, inclusive, whereby said disks may be rotated to bring the numerals thereon in register with display openings 37, 38, 39, 40, 4l and 42, respectively, in the face plate 3a.

The plays which arise in a baseball game, such for instance as balls, strikes, hunts,

home runs, etc., are inscribed upon a. pairv play openings in the face plate, which are normally closed by slides 48, mounted in slideways 49 and provided with outturned ends y50, so that they may be slid to one side to disclose the underlying plays on the aprons. Said slides 48 have the phrases Bases clear, men on l and 2 bases, man on 1st base, men on 1 and 3 bases, man on 2nd base, men on 2 and 3 bases, man on 3rd base, and bases full. The plays upon the aprons 43 and the inscriptions'upon the slides 4S are arranged in proper relation to each other, so that impossible plays cannot occur, but on the contrary only such plays are .re corded in the progress of a game as actually occur in a professional baseball game.

The aprons 43 are held close to the slide openings, so that the different plays can be easily read, by a sustaining plate 51, the ends of which are bent at right angles to its longitudinal portion and provided with bayonet slots 52, to receive lbuttons 53 fixed to the adjacent sides of the inner section 2 of the case l.

The'roller 45 is journaled in bearings 57 and provided at its ends with knobs 5S, whereby it may be rotated to actuate the aprons 43, which are provided with marginal holes 59 to receive `the sprocket teeth 60,

Y spaced around the roller 45 to prevent the aprons from slipping thereon when it is rotated.

After each movement of the aprons 43 it is desirable to have them stop with two transverse rows of'y inscriptions thereon directly beneath the display openings, so that said inscriptions .can be easily read, so I provide the centra] portion of the roller with a peripheral row of indentations 6l,

Vspaced apart to correspond with the spacing of the rows of inscriptions and adapted to receive the pointed terminal of a detent 62, fulcrumed at 63 and provided at its opposite end with a knob 64 extending outwardly through the face plate 3a. By pressing inwardly upon the knob 64 the detent is disengaged from the roller 45 and held out of engagement therewith until the same has been rotated as many revolutions as desired. The knob 64 is then released and the detent 62 is forced into engagement with the roller 45 by a coil spring 65, whereupon the roller is turned until one of the indentations 6l registers with the pointed end of the detent, which enters said indentation and locks the roller from further movement until lthe knob 64 is again pressed inwardly.

As the aprons 43 will sag more or less while the apparatus is being used in a horizontal position, I provide the rear wall ,of the case l with longitudinal ribs 3C, which support the rear sides of the aprons, so that the inscriptions thereon cannot contact the inner surface of said rear wall and be worn off.

rlhe roller 45 is held from backward rotation by a ratchet wheel 66 fixed to one end thereof and a gravity pawl 6T engaging said ratchet wheel 66. The action of the pawl 67 against the fine teeth of the ratchet wheel 66 is noiseless, hence should one ofA the partiesplaying a game memorize the transverse rows of inscriptions on the aprons 43, he cannot locate any particular row from the action of said pawl and ratchet wheel. is a further precautionary measure against one adversary having an advantage over his opponent by memorizing the rows of inscriptions, two aprons 43, instead of one, are provided, so that either apron may be shifted on the rollers to change the relative position of its rows with respect to the rows on the companion apron. Hence it will be readily understood that the parties playing a game will have equal chances of winning.

As the game is played in substantially the same manner as described in my copending application hereinbefore mentioned, further description thereof is unnecessary.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In anl apparatus of the chars cter de- Vof which is adapted to telescope into the other, interior longitudinal ribs on one of said sections, and posts fixed to the wall of one section and adapted to abut a wall of the companion section.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, a case having openings through which different plays may be disclosed. endless aprons arranged in the case beneath said openings and bearing the names of the plays, and interior ribs on the rear wall of the case for said aprons to rub against.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, a case, rollers journaled in said case and one of which has recesses spaced around the periphery thereof, a detent vhaving a terminal adapted to enter said recesses one at a time, and endless aprons running around said rollers and bearing rows of plays adapted to be disclosed at openings in the case, said rows being spaced relative to the recesses in one of the rollers.

Ll. In an apparatus of the character described, a case, rollers journaled in said case and one of which has recesses spaced around the periphery thereof, a detent having a terminal adapted to enter any of said recesses, resilient means tending to force said terminal into the recesses, knobs on the roller containing the recesses so that it may be rotated, endless aprons running around the rollers and bearing rows of plays to be displayed at openings in the case, said rows being spaced relative to the recesses in one of the rollers.

5. ln an apparatus of the character described, a case, rollersjournaled in said case, endless aprons running around said rollers and bearing the names of diierent plays to be displayed at openings in the case, a sustaining plate having slots therein and adapted to support the aprons close to the openings in the case, and buttons iXed to the interior of the case to receive the slotted portions oi' said sustaining plate. y

6. In an apparatus of the character described, a case having a representation of a baseball field thereon and openings through which players of two opposing teams may be displayed in order in their respective in and out ield positions, a rockable member having an opening therein and representations of most of said players spaced thereon in such manner that one operation of said member discloses players of one team and another operation discloses players of the opposing team at said openings, disks surrounded by said rockable member and containing representations of base runners of the opposing teams to be displayed at openings in the case, another disk surrounded by the rockable member and containing representations of the opposing pitchers to be alternately displayed at an opening in the case, and means connecting the last-mentioned disk and the rockable member whereby the latter actuates the former.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

STEPHEN A. AKINS. Witnesses:

MARTIN L. FOGEL, F. G. FISCHER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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